Attempt to build a web portal for Blink (https://blinkforhome.com) products. Currently, the only way to view and administer Blink products is via a mobile app. This project is an attempt to build an open source web portal that will allow a subset of actions to be performed via a computer browser.
This is the backed-end component of the portal. It's a simple app written in Kotlin, using SpringBoot. Unfortunately Blink does not provide API documentation, as a result everything is a result of reverse-engineering the mobile app API calls (this is the documentation I managed to extract). I tested the app only on european servers using a Blink XT2 camera (the only one I own). The front-end can be found here: https://github.com/adrian-dobre/BlinkWebUI.
In order to build the app, you need Java 1.8 installed on your computer. Steps to build:
- clone this repo
- run
./gradlew build bootJarinside the root directory
A new build will be outputted in build/libs directory.
You can download a pre-built release from here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1w6ZteA14Bhb52HeKeLxHJfP0sNiNsaM3?usp=sharing
- run
java -jar <path/to/jar> --uiBuildPath=<path/to/ui/build> --server.port=80
You can try a build of the app here: http://blink-web.madtek.ro
Logging level was set to INFO level, it won't log request/response information.
NOTE: If there are many people using the demo app at the same time, CloudFront may start blocking requests making the app reply with 401/403 status code. In this case, I suggest you host your own private instance of the app, either locally or on your webserver. You can also try the docker version of the app here built by @mcmoe here: https://github.com/mcmoe/blinkwebapp
- view the list of recordings
- bulk download recordings
- bulk delete recordings
- play a recording
- view the list of cameras
- enable/disable camera
- view the list of networks
- arm/disarm network
- view the list of blink modules
Note: I was unable to open a live view to the camera, it seems that it uses a proprietary protocol (immis) I could not figure it out (as stated before, there is no documentation for 3rd party developers).
You can see a short UI Demo here
- (maybe) ability to change settings
- (maybe) UI improvements
- (maybe) cloud (Google Drive) backups of recordings
- others?!
This work represents a personal effort, developed in my spare time and while I have every intention to further develop this solution, I cannot offer any guarantees. However, anybody can just grab the code and do whatever they want with it (it is released under GPL v3 license)
If you'd like to support my work you could buy me a beer.